Matt Klotz: 5 Things To Know About The Deaflympian Competing On ‘Big Brother’

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Image Credit: CBS Matt is 1 of the caller houseguests of Big Brother play 25. Matt is simply a deaf swimmer who’s competed successful the Deaflympics. Matt is from California.

Big Brother is acceptable for a history-making play successful much ways than one. Ahead of the show’s milestone play premiere connected August 2, CBS revealed the brand-new houseguests who volition beryllium moving into the Big Brother house. One standout from the leap is Matt Klotz.

Matt Klotz is simply a ‘Big Brother’ play 25 contestant. (CBS)

Matt is simply a Deaflympian, truthful helium knows what it takes to win. The 27-year-old presently lives successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but he’s primitively from Cameron Park, California. Now that Big Brother play 25 is here, HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 cardinal things to cognize astir Matt.

Matt was calved deaf.

Matt revealed helium is “not from a deaf family” successful an interrogation with DeafPeople.com. “I was conscionable calved this way. It was earlier cosmopolitan proceeding screening was done connected newborns, truthful my parents did not cognize I was deaf until I was two.” He noted that helium could “read lips aboriginal on,” but it wasn’t until helium received proceeding immunodeficiency that helium heard his parents’ voices for the archetypal time.

Matt has a concealed he’ll beryllium keeping successful the Big Brother house.

“I’m decidedly not going to fto anyone cognize my small secret, which is articulator reading. I tin work anyone’s lips from acold distant oregon up close, and I’m not going to fto them cognize that due to the fact that that’s going to beryllium a immense vantage for me,” Matt said successful the Diary Room, arsenic seen successful The Exclusive with Sharon Tharp’s “First Impressions of the New Cast” video.

Matt admitted that he’s a “decent instrumentality of Big Brother” aft having watched a mates of seasons. He revealed that his “main focus” going into the Big Brother location is to “try to triumph the archetypal HOH truthful that radical travel to maine to marque the alliances truthful I don’t person to interest astir that.” However, helium doesn’t privation to “burn excessively galore bridges close away,” truthful he’ll beryllium holding himself “back a little” successful immoderate of the challenges.

Matt is the archetypal deaf contestant successful Big Brother history.

The Big Brother play 25 formed is rather the ensemble. In 23 years and 25 seasons of the deed CBS series, Matt is the archetypal hard-of-hearing contestant successful Big Brother history. He joins Jag Bains successful making Big Brother past successful play 25. Jag is the archetypal Sikh contestant to compete.

Matt has competed successful the Deaflympics.

Matt received 2 golden medals successful the 100M Backstroke astatine the 2013 Summer Deaflympics. He besides competed astatine the 2017 Summer Deaflympics, wherever helium earned 3 golden medals successful the 50M, 100M, and 200M backstroke events. Like the Olympics, the Deaflympics are held each 4 years.

Matt went to Louisana State University.

Matt attended Louisiana State University from 2016 to 2020. He was a subordinate of the school’s aquatics team. Matt was portion of the 200 Free Relay squad that broke the school’s grounds astatine the SEC Championships during his elder season, according to his LSU bio.

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